Background
He was born on June 29, 1916, in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New New York
He was born on June 29, 1916, in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New New York
He attended the parochial schools, and for one year Villanova College. He graduated Bachelor of Arts from The Catholic University of America in 1938. And Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1941.
He was an alternate delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention. FitzPatrick was Chairman of the New York Power Authority from 1963 to 1977. The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba was named in his honor in 1975.
He died on February 13, 1988, in Champlain Valley Hospital in Plattsburgh, New York, of leukemia.
FitzPatrick was a member of the New York State Assembly (Clinton Company) from 1947 to 1956, sitting in the 166th, 167th, 168th, 169th, 170th and 171st New York State Legislatures.